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Re: The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 1:20 AM UTC

humbleMouse wrote: post #27

I don't like the iphone 6 line. They are too big. I bike and run with my phone all the time and don't like having a clunker strapped to my arm. I got rid of the 6 and got a 5c and I like it way more. Just as fast as an iphone6 and 1/3 the price. By just as fast, I mean for normal use - not playing games and using crazy apps (which I don't do)

I currently own a 5C and I think I'll eventually replace it with a 5S. The iPhone 6/6S can fit my hand also, but it's not really as comfortable as the 5S and below were.

Re: The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

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Post by hartator » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 1:25 AM UTC

mikeyouse wrote: post #105

gamegoblin wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently downgraded from a 6 to a 5S almost entirely over size issues. If my thumb cannot reach the url bar of the browser and all of the keyboard without repositioning my hand, the phone is too big. I know on the 6 you can double tap the home key to bring the screen down, but that is a bandaid. I also found the double tap unresponsive sometimes, often having to try two or three times, in which time I could have ju…

> If my thumb cannot reach the url bar of the browser and all of the keyboard without repositioning my hand, the phone is too big. I know this isn't the question you asked and you've already moved on, but for others, there is a way around this problem on the iPhone. If you 'soft tap' the home button twice, the entire display shifts down about 3 inches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3CTKI6pRlQ

> I know on the 6 you can double tap the home key to bring the screen down, but that is a bandaid. I also found the double tap unresponsive sometimes, often having to try two or three times, in which time I could have just repositioned my hand.

I think he already know that, and I kind of agree.

Re: The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 1:25 AM UTC

vbezhenar wrote: post #15

I wonder, how many years iPhone 6S will be able to stay relevant. For example iPhone 4S started lagging on iOS 7. While it's certainly usable on iOS 9, it feels as an old and underpowered device. If you have powerful computer from 2010, it'll happily run Windows 10 and almost any application, including almost any game in medium (or even high) mode. I wonder, whether this race on mobile platform will continue or iPhon…

The 2012 iPhone 5 (and 2013 iPhone 5C, which is essentially the same but plastic) still run iOS smoothly.

But that's probably because the iPhone 4S has half as much RAM and a 0.3GHz slower CPU.

Re: The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

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Post by NamTaf » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 1:34 AM UTC

gamegoblin wrote: post #40

humbleMouse wrote: post #27

I don't like the iphone 6 line. They are too big. I bike and run with my phone all the time and don't like having a clunker strapped to my arm. I got rid of the 6 and got a 5c and I like it way more. Just as fast as an iphone6 and 1/3 the price. By just as fast, I mean for normal use - not playing games and using crazy apps (which I don't do)

I recently downgraded from a 6 to a 5S almost entirely over size issues. If my thumb cannot reach the url bar of the browser and all of the keyboard without repositioning my hand, the phone is too big. I know on the 6 you can double tap the home key to bring the screen down, but that is a bandaid. I also found the double tap unresponsive sometimes, often having to try two or three times, in which time I could have ju…

I, too, am hanging out for the 7 series to see if they refresh the 4" display. I completely agree with you that I prefer to use my phone one-handed and the shift-the-screen-down hack that the larger idevices use is really a bad solution to the problem.

I actually went so far as to buy a new 5S a couple of weeks ago after I got drunk and threw my old one at the ground one too many times and smashed it to pieces. It was due for replacement anyway because the battery was hosed and losing charge way too fast. I could've paid a bit more for the 6 or 6s and I love the shape and construction of the phone, but the size is simply a dealbreaker for me.

Re: The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 1:41 AM UTC

calvin_c wrote: post #36

jackson1372 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you have powerful computer from 2010, it'll happily run Windows 10 and almost any application, including almost any game in medium (or even high) mode. I wonder, whether this race on mobile platform will continue or iPhone 6S will be able to run iOS 15 without any lags? I'm not sure the comparison to PCs is fair. Smartphones are still pretty young, and both the OS and chipsets make large leaps every year. If the…

A good precedent has already been set for this. The first iPhone got two major updates, iOS 4.0 being the first version that didn't support it. The 3GS added an extra year to the lifespan, launching with iOS 3.0 and only being left out of support for iOS 7. The 4S added even another year, recently having received the fourth major update of it's lifespan. So yeah, while there is certainly some performance lost on a 4S…

So it looks like smartphones are going where computers did. That's encouraging!

Re: The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

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Post by NamTaf » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 1:49 AM UTC

nicholas73 wrote: post #11

The iPhone 6s Plus I have is a wonderful phone, but I can't help but feel that Apple is losing some of it's perfection. There are some obvious UI annoyances that are present. Such as, the Plus is a large phone so you most often open it with the phone tilted somehow, giving you landscape mode. It does not easily revert to the upright state without juggling it around, nor is there an option to not go landscape on the h…

I've noticed more software bugs in the last couple of iOS releases than previously. Sometimes the top status bar (time, battery, rotation lock/silence symbols, etc.) will disappear, fail to change colour, etc. Sometimes apps think they're in landscape when the phone itself thinks it's in portrait, making the app half the height and twice the width of the screen. On iOS9 specifically, sometimes the touch digitiser just stops working and I have to force a reboot.

There's also small things that seem unpolished to the traditional "Apple" level. For example even 2 years after the iOS7 release, the size of the status bar at the top changes between the lock screen and the homescreen, which means that not only does text size change but also the number of symbols that show up near the battery display changes too if you're right at the limit of real estate there. Yes, it's minor, but stuff like that didn't seem to happen several generations ago, but I'm noticing it more and more.

Re: The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

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Post by Bud » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 1:58 AM UTC

467568985476 wrote: post #107

nothrabannosir wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It turned out to be quite a close-run race between the iPhone 6S and the Galaxy Note 5 for the title but Apple’s latest just beat Samsung’s latest with 38.2 and 34.1 percent of the 7810 votes respectively. On an internet poll. When the results are this close, details matter. Not to mention there are no Android photos, only Samsung, Nokia, &c. And even then, different models. Not saying you're wrong (I think you're ri…

Both of these phones have great cameras, but they don't hold a candle to the performance of even crop sensor entry level DSLRs and mirrorless bodies. It seems pointless to me to split hairs over picture quality between two strong options when anyone who _seriously_ cares about pixel peeping wouldn't use a smartphone for photography in the first place

This is just plainly false. There are now serious photographers and movie-makers using the iPhone for serious photography. A lot of them.

Re: The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

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Post by dreamfactory2 » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 1:59 AM UTC

zephod wrote: post #72

humbleMouse wrote: post #27

I don't like the iphone 6 line. They are too big. I bike and run with my phone all the time and don't like having a clunker strapped to my arm. I got rid of the 6 and got a 5c and I like it way more. Just as fast as an iphone6 and 1/3 the price. By just as fast, I mean for normal use - not playing games and using crazy apps (which I don't do)

I feel the same way, and at this point I'm just holding out for some kind of iPhone Nano product line next year. What puzzles me is that I don't know anybody else who feels like this. Most people are surprised at me, or don't seem to notice that they suddenly need two hands to operate their smartphone.

Totally agree, sticking with the 5s due to size in jeans and one-handed use despite the desire and budget to upgrade. Have been considering upgrading to an old 64gb one since they no longer offer that

Re: The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

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Post by vxNsr » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 2:00 AM UTC

It's funny because despite most of this review going into very grimy detail about chipsets and transistor sizes and such (and other things which I honestly didn't understand) most of the comments are no different than what one would see on a less in-depth review from theverge, arstechnica or yahoo tech news.

I find it fascinating that Apple was able to get their process down to 14nm using the so called "3D process" up until now I really didn't understand why the qualcomm 810 was having so much trouble, now it makes a lot more sense.

Re: The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review

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Post by Bud » Wed, Nov 04, 2015, 2:00 AM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #111

humbleMouse wrote: post #27

I don't like the iphone 6 line. They are too big. I bike and run with my phone all the time and don't like having a clunker strapped to my arm. I got rid of the 6 and got a 5c and I like it way more. Just as fast as an iphone6 and 1/3 the price. By just as fast, I mean for normal use - not playing games and using crazy apps (which I don't do)

I currently own a 5C and I think I'll eventually replace it with a 5S. The iPhone 6/6S can fit my hand also, but it's not really as comfortable as the 5S and below were.

Respectfully, as a person who once agreed with you, I would say that you can't possibly really know this until you actually USE a 6/6S for a couple weeks, all the time. You might be shocked at how quickly your hand adapts and finds the new size to be just as natural as the old 5S size. I was shocked.